What's up? What's up Nick? Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because you're nine to five may make you a living

But you're five to nine makes you alive

We've got a little coaching series going on this month featuring as some listeners who are already seeing some

Pretty healthy traction with their businesses, but are still looking for ways to grow expand optimize all that fun stuff

Today you're gonna meet Troy Parker who runs an Etsy shop called Goober prints direct to garment printing

Don't pretty well with that Troy welcome to the show Nick. Thanks for having me on mate. I'm a big fan of the show

my court wind of it late last year early this year and I

Love here and all of the side hustles from you know mobile homes to doll houses to Etsy shop and everything

It's awesome. Well, thanks so much for tuning in happy to have you in the other corner to help talk through some

Ideas and expansion opportunities for Troy is for her second side hustle show appearance from a sweet spot marketing that CA

It's Melissa Mcdonald welcome back. Thanks Nick. Great to be here. You bet. So Troy

I'm gonna have you kick us off here with kind of the

Baseline of the business today in terms of sales revenue time required give us a sense for how far you've come so far

I've always loved t-shirt and a power printing so I thought why not open up

my Etsy page and

Do some of power printing so

Opened that up in February of 2019 didn't really have an idea of how it was gonna go

I was kind of in the mindset, you know, if I make an extra hundred bucks a week, then that's great

That's where I kind of thought I would be

First year sales was around ten thousand dollars, which was still more than I thought

I was quite happy with that. I'd made 300 sales in that first year and

Then the second year, which was 2020, you know, I just put a lot more time into it and then it up getting just over

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